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0010702ParaViewBugpublic2010-05-11 09:232016-08-12 09:58
tbrandvik 
Robert Maynard 
normalmajoralways
closedmoved 
3.8 
 
0010702: XDMF/HDF5 reader memory leak
I'm experiencing a memory leak with the XDMF reader when
trying to create an animation of the data contained in a set of HDF5
files. My approach is as follows:

1. One XDMF file which is a temporal collection containing links to a
list of other XDMF files
2. One XDMF file for each time step (linked to by the XDMF file
above), each of which is a spatial collection of several 2D structured
grids. The data for the grids is contained in HDF5 files (also one for
each time step).

When I open the file with the temporal collection in Paraview, the
data shows up as a temporal collection as expected. I can step back
and forth in time and everything seems to work just fine. However, as
I load in more time steps (by stepping forward in time), Paraview's
memory usage keeps increasing. It seems like it is not freeing the
memory associated with the old time step when reading in a new one.

To illustrate this problem, I've uploaded a collection of XDMF and
HDF5 files.

There are 10 time steps in the collection. The data set is very small,
but it should still show the problem (I could easily generate larger
data sets if necessary). I get the same behaviour in Paraview 3.6 and
3.8 on both Centos 5.3 (64 bit) and Mac OS X 10.5.
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gz xdmf_example.tar.gz (2,134,206) 2010-05-11 09:23
https://www.vtk.org/Bug/file/8104/xdmf_example.tar.gz
Issue History
2010-05-11 09:23tbrandvikNew Issue
2010-05-11 09:23tbrandvikFile Added: xdmf_example.tar.gz
2010-05-11 14:17Robert MaynardStatusbacklog => tabled
2010-05-11 14:17Robert MaynardAssigned To => Robert Maynard
2010-05-28 17:31Robert MaynardNote Added: 0020863
2010-05-28 17:31Robert MaynardStatustabled => @80@
2010-05-28 17:31Robert MaynardFixed in Version => 3.8
2010-05-28 17:31Robert MaynardResolutionopen => fixed
2010-06-01 21:59Alan ScottNote Added: 0020892
2010-06-01 21:59Alan ScottStatus@80@ => closed
2011-03-09 12:45Utkarsh AyachitNote Added: 0025714
2011-03-09 12:45Utkarsh AyachitStatusclosed => @30@
2016-08-12 09:58Kitware RobotNote Added: 0037826
2016-08-12 09:58Kitware RobotStatusbacklog => closed
2016-08-12 09:58Kitware RobotFixed in Version3.8 =>
2016-08-12 09:58Kitware RobotResolutionfixed => moved

Notes
(0020863)
Robert Maynard   
2010-05-28 17:31   
commit SHA1: bb8a0cf4c871245ce91c1218c5efa7207d78e362
(0020892)
Alan Scott   
2010-06-01 21:59   
Not sure how to test - assuming fixed.
(0025714)
Utkarsh Ayachit   
2011-03-09 12:45   
Reopened since user reports that ParaView hangs when pvserver starts with odd number of procs like 3,6,5,7,9....
(0037826)
Kitware Robot   
2016-08-12 09:58   
Resolving issue as `moved`.

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